Thread: Melting Lead - fumes

Mate owns a radiator shop, gets tested a couple times a year as he's soldering for hours a day with just a fan behind him. It's up and own but he's been doing it 35 years and he still isn't too heavy

Originally Posted by Tommy

Mate owns a radiator shop, gets tested a couple times a year as he's soldering for hours a day with just a fan behind him. It's up and own but he's been doing it 35 years and he still isn't too heavy

Yep, the extraction fan does a huge amount of work for you in the soldering and casting/fume exposure situations. I don't know why it is, but even if you hold your breath the smoke just wafts straight up for your head like it's trying to kill you... In engineering, fume extraction is the first point of control (engineered controls) followed by PPE and then the admin/health screening.